Anonymous ID: 3d3708 Dec. 25, 2018, 12:45 p.m. No.4465912   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Nineteen people have been charged with sex trafficking girls and young women, in part through a residential treatment center in Westchester County, federal authorities said.

 

The defendants are accused of recruiting at least 15 minor girls in the child welfare system, including at least nine girls at Hawthorne Cedar Knolls in Mount Pleasant, for prostitution.

 

"Children in the child welfare system are among the most vulnerable in our society," U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Berman said in a statement. "The defendants and their conspirators callously recruited girls as young as 13 from a residential treatment facility for at-risk youth then sexually trafficked and prostituted them for financial profit."

 

The Hawthorne Cedar Knolls residential treatment center for troubled youths was closed this year by its operator, the Jewish Board of Family and Children's Services, after years of controversy. The agency still runs a special needs school and two therapeutic residences for adolescents and young adults.

 

https://www.lohud.com/story/news/crime/2018/12/13/westchester-sex-trafficking-arrests/2300625002/